Break

Course evaluations

AGENDA
Good Educational Website/Needs Work Website
* Remaining pairs

Lesson plan #2
* Base Group (describe lesson to your group and get feedback)
* Base Group Progress Report (take the survey)

How-To
* Items on what do you want Jim to cover?

Chapter 9

Concept Mapping
* Inspiration (already loaded on the lab computers; available on download for free for your own computer)
* MindMeister
What does technology in your English classroom look like? Create a web.

Final portfolio assignment sheet
Portfolio Checklist

Design/Work Lab
* Work on projects and get help from Jim & classmates

DUE NEXT CLASS (December 6)
* Presentations of final portfolios
* Portfolio links (Due 11:59 p.m. December 13)

HOMEWORK DUE TODAY
* Participate in online forum
* Upload your favorite poem to VoiceThread discussion
* Storybird project

AGENDA
Basegroups
Good Website/Need a Redesign
+ Jake & Leigh
 + Alex & Jim
 + Allison & Tian
 + Eve, Nicole & Megan G.

Polls
Is technology harmful or helpful?

What would you like to go over next week?
See the Twitter Feed –>

Discussions
* Free Rice
* VoiceThread
* This I Believe
* My Favorite Poem

Construct a Lesson
* Basegroups
* Go crazy with technology

Take a look at this:
K-12 online integration

and this

And this:
Cool Voki example
Webquests (?)
Animoto

Concept-Mapping

Example of Scope & Sequence
09-10_English_10_Pacing_Map
* Essential questions for whole course
* Essential questions for each unit

HOMEWORK FOR NOV. 22
* Lesson Plan #2 (email it to Jim hatt0047@umn.edu or bring it to class)
* Work on final portfolio
* Work on Concept Mapping
* Read Chapter 9 in Roblyer & Doering

HOMEWORK DUE OCT. 25
1)  Email your lesson plan to me as an attachment (hatt0047@umn.edu)
2) Post the link to your collaborative tool in your class profile on the class website

AGENDA (All of the following is due before class on Nov. 8th)
* No website presentations for this week’s class (these resume Nov. 8 )

By the beginning of class on Nov. 8, complete the following in full:

1)  Take this poll

(note: this tool is called Poll Everywhere. It takes polling results from a variety of sources, but is basically built as a texting poll tool. Results are posted in “real time” — no lag between when the votes are entered and you see the results. It would be a great tool to use with your students to ask Anticipatory Questions or anytime you want instant feedback from you students).

2) Favorite Poem Project

Poems have the ability to move us, inspire us, help us reflect, and to bring truth to our worlds. What is your favorite poem? Why is this your favorite poem? Take a few moments to think about these things and perhaps give some context to your favorite poem.

Take a look at this outstanding website for inspiration: http://www.favoritepoem.org/ This is an outstanding tool you can use in your classroom and something that will help you know your students better.

This week, you are going to participate in our class version of the “My Favorite Poem.”

 Here’s how:
a) Go to our class VoiceThread (an excellent collaborative tool for your classroom). There will be a VoiceThread introducing our favorite poem project
b) Comment via voice or video (you may also combine words to your comments). See the VoiceThread site for more info on how to do this. You may want to have all your materials ready when you sit down to record: the poem, a few notes written down, check the microphone and webcam, etc.
c) In your comment:
* Tell us your name
* Give the title and author of your favorite poem
* Give us some background on your favorite poem (why did you choose it, when did you first read it, what do you know about the poem or poet)
* Recite the poem
* Watch your classmates’ poems 

3. VoiceThread discussion
a) To better understand VoiceThread, please look at some of the following links. Think about how you might use VoiceThread in a lesson.  Note how many different ways VoiceThread can be used.

 http://voicethread.com/#q.b579.i5325
 http://voicethread.com/#q.b71107.i365592
 http://voicethread.com/#q.b26224.i145977
 http://voicethread.com/#q.b38186.i199787
 http://voicethread.com/#q.b514987.i2744346
http://voicethread.com/#q.b297608.i1577612
 http://voicethread.com/#q.b428910.i2311940
http://voicethread.com/#q.b539713.i2889798
 http://voicethread.com/#q.b12295.i79991
http://voicethread.com/#q.b4973.i38884
 http://voicethread.com/#q.b2074.i21686
 http://voicethread.com/#q.b179626

b) Once you’ve seen a wide variety of examples of VoiceThread, go to our class forum and enter or create a discussion about VoiceThread usage. Please read other comments and become involved in a conversation.

 http://www.voy.com/224255/

 (A note about Voy Forums: this service provides for collaboration. It is an older online tool and can be a touch clunky, but it does bring collaboration to your classroom online via a discussion room.)

4.  Create a Storybird story
Storybird is an online collaborative story/book writing tool that you might consider using in a lesson.
a) Get together with at least one person from class or a spouse or group of any sort. Your name just has to be on one of the stories, so no need to do two different stories if there are two of you from class (you can work in groups of two, three, four, five … I don’t care, so long as you all are helping and collaborating. Only one project will be turned in for the whole group; for instance, if you have a group of four of you from class, that is the project you turn in — not four different projects).
b) Figure out how you are going to write your story, who is going to do what, and what you are writing about.
c) Go to the website for Storybird and create your collaborative story
d) comment on the bottom of this post (it’s at the very end of the Class 4 agenda post) how to get to your Storybird.
e) Read the Storybirds created by other groups

5. This I Believe
This I Believe is an outstanding web lesson and collaborative piece that I’ve used in teaching before. It works well to teach kids how to write a thesis statement. It also helps teach them how to write concisely and keep on topic. I have had my students create podcasts of their This I Believes to share them with the class.

http://thisibelieve.org/

Take a good look around the site. Listen to some of the essays. My favorites are those by folks you wouldn’t expect like the one from skateboarder Tony Hawk.
a) Think about how you might use “This I Believe” in a Unit. Consider how you would have to scaffold (build up to the actual turn-in date) the assignments of it to get a strong outcome. Remember to keep in mind what would be obstacles: both technological and with your students.
b) Bring your thoughts on This I Believe to class on Nov. 8 and be ready for discussion.

6. Play with this site
It’s fun. Remember to mention it to your students whenever you get a chance. There’s nothing wrong with getting your kids addicted to a game that is both educational and feeds the hungry!
http://www.freerice.com/

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That’s it for these weeks. When we get back together on November 8 we will tackle lesson plan writing some more and perhaps discuss wikis in better scope. No reading this week (yaaaayyyy), so work hard on the modules above and always keep in mind how you could use this with your students.

Email me with any questions.
~Jim

Base Groups
Re-connect, check-in
Quality of Work survey and points (record them in your profile)
Questions for Jim

Web site presentations
* Jess & Tara
* Bridget & Stephanie
* Patrick & Dan
* Rebecca & Ted

Gallery walk
Presentation items
“Home base” web pages or blogs

Readings
TPACK
Discuss Ch. 4
Madeline Hunter
RAT_overview

Collaboration technologies
VoiceThread
PbWorks
Wallwisher

“Clickers”
Poll Everywhere
TodaysMeet

Forum/Discussion board
Voy forums

Word cloud technology
Wordle

“The Raven”

HOMEWORK

* Read Chapter 6
* Collaborative tool (turn in online by October 25)
* Lesson Plan #1 (turn in online by October 25)
* On-going visual mapping (MindMeister, Inspiration, etc.)
* Website presentations for November 8:
 + Jake & Leigh
 + Alex & Jim
 + Allison & Tian
 + Eve, Nicole & Megan G.
** Remember: We are online next session (see website for details!)
* Final project due December 6, 2010!

http://hatten5007.pbworks.com/

Technology integration pros and cons  you’ve experienced
Base groups
Check In
Questions or comments re: teaching, English, etc.?
Syllabus (send up one person to get it)
How the Internet works (servers, websites, school servers, cloud computing, email, school’s trends…)
Reading: Groups 1-2-3 take Chapter 1; Groups 4-5-6-7 Chapter 2
Highlights; important portions
Sign up for pair presentations (Use favorite food – match, not in your basegroup; Post to their profile a comment about their favorite restaurant)

BREAK

Trios (different favorite color; not in your basegroup)
Technology integration pros and cons  you’ve experienced
Report back to group

Lecture/Demonstration
Websites and blogs
Presentation technologies

Back to base groups
Lab time (if possible)

Homework for next class (Due Oct. 11: Web Page assignment; Presentation Assignment; Chapter 4)

Self-evaluation
Closure

• Update your profile
• Add a photo to your profile
• You are all now Administrators for your Groups. You may rename the groups if you like.
• Look at MindMeister. Sign up for free and see what you can create. (In class we will begin creation of a Concept Map or Mind Map of a topic of your choosing). (MindMeister is a cloud computing tool.) If you prefer, you may do the trial free download of Inspiration to do the same. Inspiration is on the computers in Peik 355. Click the button “Free Trials”.

• Read Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 in your text: Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching. Be prepared to discuss, synthesize and (gasp!) quiz.

Welcome to class!

About you 

• Base Groups
• Why Technology?
• Online survey — Google Forms

  

• Inspiration or MindMeister

***BREAK***

Class website

• Online profile
• Triads
• Mind Mapping assignment
• Design Lab
• Base Group again
• Homework for Sept. 27
• Report back — Closure

Welcome to EDHD 5007 for the English/Language Arts cohort. This site is the web-based home base for our class. For Fall Semester 2010 we meet face-to-face (F2F) every-other Monday from 12:20-3:20 p.m. in luxurious Peik Hall 355.

My name is Jim Hatten and I taught English/Language Arts in grades 9-12 for 11 years at four different Minnesota public high schools. I am currently working on my Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Learning Technologies. I have my M.Ed. in Learning Technologies and a Technology Enhanced Certificate in K-12 Internet and Technology Integration.

Let’s have a happy, enjoyable and educational semester as you grow closer to your professional career as an English educator.